Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-10-16


SEEING some caniiHowsr abosrd ny
wagcn, Chops the butcher. asked tie
price, which vas 3 ceats lof the seven
/ beads Such an unusually loW Rzlee
caused him y look Close alter Mh1ch
back he Went into The mnFke5 wa n1a
nose Ct an angle 81 IS degrees. Iee9
we're rather small and Hl-shaped. but
The best from 80 plants-sone over
/. grown enough 70 mar them. For nice
! heads earlier In the season received
from Is 70 5 cents each a. soon e.
offered. Ny neiEhboF Coax wes lock
! ing on. nnd inquired. " What ais y0ur
eaulinowers r. 4 replied. = These are
suffering from neglect and general o.
! bility Said het = Mine are much tie
same. / had 8 few good ones, bit
many are Ike those you have sone
looEe hezds, some purple, some brown
nom sunbuKD, some TOO small. In
tend sending 20 Germany for The Sod
Of the Erfurt cnuIiiioWsF next year.
What do you think Of that seed :"
replied that II he could gaf true seed q
The Extra Early EEfurt, it was fully
equal 10 that sold now as Snowfall;
that the best cnuli6ower ever raised
vas from that seed. costing at the rate
Of So an ounce, and / had not found
any Of the SNOWFALL 10 equal Il. except
the strain offered By Henderson,. We
agreed that very much depends upon
the kind Of seed. Canlih0Wer needs 3
very rich soil; not manure st the root
50 much Is rich soil. ! have four
kinds side BIZ side this year with the
same treatment, and all are poor.
Hendersonss seed gave me few good
early heads; for this seed paid &c the
rate Of IS an ounce. The Snowfall
eaulifower from other dealers seed
gave poof heads; and seeds Of . Early
Paris caulifower,n from the Wash
ington seed store, did not yield 8 val
liable head. That bureau should bel
obliged to stop sending out ny more
such seed.
Caulifiower with me has been profit
able about one year in three. LAST
year was the good year with me; set
100 plants and marketed go heads,
most 81 them nice, many selling for g
cents each. This year the heads were
not smooth and many grew M-shaped.
This e true also Of plan IN other gar
dens in town; one man cutting itktle
or nothing from half an ounce Of seed
soWn. When going through 70 cutior
market cover heads Just forming with
leaves broken from the cut plants; this
excludes hight and is Z quick and CEN
venient way TO do, 70 prevent sunbuxn.
Some years ago, when the caulitiower
was new in the ma -ket, anything could
be sold; new nothing but the BEST viii
bring q paying price. This season with
us has been wet, vet think my canli-
flowers have done better Ia q modeF-
ately dry season when planted on q 4
moist sol. Last season / had 100
plants in hotbeds, and fed them ct least 1
81 worth Of water-and lost them al 4
because did not feed them So worth.
find the best and strongeat plants
among the seedlings make the bagt
heads. Seed planted after the flrst
week Of Nay VIII be too late 20 head
before frost in my grounds. ! plant /
seed Of Snowfall the middle OF kebru-
MY for first crop, 10 market from June /
10 August; and next year intend to l
plant the same April /, for crop ma
turing In September and later. When
severe frost Is near, In the tall, there
are often heads half formed; these can
be saved By bending over the plants 20
az near the ground, pushing them over
toward the south with the foot; hard
Irost spoils the caulifoWer unless laid
,ver in this way. When there Is dan
ger Of the ground freezing, pull up half
lrown heads, and all good ones, and
let them In earth In light cellar, wa
ser them, and, though the leaves viii /
all Of, you can often keep the heads
i'll the holidays.-lW. II. Bull, Hamp-
len county, Mass.